Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter was a Swedish actor and writer who trained at Gothenburg City Theater's student school from 1953 to 1957 and then worked at several Swedish theaters, among them the National Swedish Touring Theatre, the Norrköping City Theatre, the Vasateatern, and the Gothenburg City Theater. He became widely known in Sweden as Gusten in Swedish Television's 1966 adaptation of August Strindberg's The People of Hemsö. Later he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's The Man on the Roof (1976), and international audiences knew him as Victor in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice (1986). He also starred in Bo Widerberg's The Man from Majorca, Colin Nutley's House of Angels (1992), Bille August's Jerusalem (1996), and John McTiernan's The 13th Warrior (1999), and he played Van Veeteren in adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels. His performance in The Man from Majorca and Sista leken earned him the Best Actor award at the 20th Guldbagge Awards.